so, after long last, my meta-analysis has been accepted, which is some pretty amazing stuff considering i'm still more or less a nobody. my favorite part so far of the tying-up-loose-ends portion of the exercise is that the editorial team, for some inscrutable reason, needs a paper copy of the manuscript, which i fully intend to send to them in a nice hefty cardboard box. i think it's always been one of my dreams to send someone a manuscript in a nice hefty cardboard box. it feels so like something jane austen would do, although she probably never did.